The Sun. — London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

NAVAL -EW$. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT: 25 —4.rriveci the Sprightly Cutter, Lieutenant GORDON, from a cruize off Tor bay. Sailed the Gannet Sloop - of War for Falmouth.' Arrived this day the Furious Gun-brig with a convoy from the Downs. Yesterday morning the Lavinia, Capt. J. HAN"' COCK,' arrived here from Admiral THeRNBROUGH'S Sqeadron,c off Toulon—she is under quarantine. She left the station off Toulon on the gth ult. where she has been cruizing 26 weeks as one of the in-shore Squadron of Frigates. She saw'the Enemy's Fleet at Toulon every day twice, and sometimes oftener. They consist of ten Sail of the Line (two of which are three -deckers) and seven Frigates, in every Tespe& ready 'for sea. GANTREAUNIE commands in chief, having under him two Rear Admirals.- 2 - Two Russian Line-of-battle Ships got in there from Porto Fieriara, in the Island of Elba, some Months since : the Lavinia saw them go in.-- Thep were immediately refitted and made ready fob sea; but now, from Sortie cause, they are dismantled, and moved into the Basin. The Spar tan; apt. BRENTON, was the in-shore frigate with the Lavinia. 'The French Line-of-battle ships (the Hannibal generally one) chased the - in-shore squa dron almost every day, but never to any distance from the harbour. They have lately launched at Toulon, two Ships of the Line, one of 80 guns, and the other, called the Austerlitz, of 120 guns. Ad miral THORNBROUGU was cruizing about ten leagues south of Toulon, with 12 Sail of the Line; a Line of Battle ship was always kept,' day and night, ad vanced in -shore, to repeat the signals from the Fri gates. . Lord COLLINGWOOD sailed from Gibraltar on the. 3 Ist Ilk to resume the command off Toulon, taking with him the Ocean, (flag-ship) Terrible, 74, Lord HARRY PAULE T Northumberland, 74, Capt. llA.acooo ; and the Excellent, 74, Captain WEST. The Lavinia spoke nothing on her passage from Gibraltar, except an the gth inst. the Myrtle Sloop, Capt. INNEs, 'off Lisbon, by which Ship the Lavi nia sent dispatches for Sir C. COTTON, it Lisbon, which she received from Lord COLLINGWOOD.; and dispatches from Gen. DRUMMOND, at Gibraltar,ufor Sir HEW DALItYNIPLE. The Myrtle left St. Vbes the morning the Lavinia spoke her : the ravages and exaaions of the Fiench in that neighbourhood, even after the signing of the. convention, were very great. A French General of Division had caused exaaions, amounting to 1,5001. sterling, to be made, which so exasperated the Portuguese, that a Portuguese Ge neral, with.sooo men, had determined to attack' . . him on the night the 411yrtle sailed. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 21.--Arrived the Brig Eco 'Only, DAVENPORT, frOnt Quebec, bound to Sheer ness, laden with tirpber and masts. Arrived La Loire Frigate from off Cadiz, and 4 /nazon Frigate from Spain. Sailed the Neptune, of 98 guns, to the Eastward ; Champion and Confounder Gun-brigs, aud.Snapper Schooner, on a cruize. Arrived the Cuckoo Schooner from Gijon, which Place she left the 19th instant ; Arrow Schooner from a cruize, and Supply Transport from the East- Whrd. Came down the harbour and anchored in Caw sand Bay the Caledonia, of 110 guns, Admiral Lord GAMBIER. DEAL, SEPT. Nassa u t o the 25.—saii,i Hi s M a j es ty' s Shi ps We stward, and the Queen to Chatham. Arrived His Majesty's Ship Trusty, and remain with the Ships as per last. SHEERNESS) SEPT.. 23.—Arrived the Ramillies, of 74 guns, from the Downs, and Priace . Arined Ship, from the North Sea. • 24.—Sailed the Ramillies,. Capt. YARKER, for•Chatham, and Nimrod Sloop of 'War, for the River.. It is expe4ed both will be paid off. ,The Prince IPA= came into Harbour. The Semiramis was paid bounty. 25.--Sailed the Claudia Cutter for Yar- Itouth. An anion is stated to have been lately fought off Tenedos, between a British Frigate and a num ber of Turkish gun-boats, and the Turks are re- . presented in : 1 e German Papers as having , been victory, we doubt not, will prove to have been similar to the ono which they expe rienced in their conflict with the Seahorse. _Notices were on Friday posted up in the principal Brokers' Offices in the City, that 255. per tort would b r ,q given t o th e Ch arter Transports for the use .of Government ;. and a tender of these terms was made inc every direttion on Change. An ingenious mechanic in Leeds, has, at the re- Tlest of a 11 , 1ilit i ary. Gentleman, invented an appa tatus, which, at k trifling expence, will, by means of a small balloon, disperse newspapers or other pub ! lea 6 - 0 s, in an' eneinyls country, with great faci litY• The machine, which does not exceed above . t hroe pounds in weight, is so constructed as to drop 41. its progress a thousand pap ers i n t h e c o urse ' o f an hour. °- . • • ~Cplonel THORNTON is again amusing the neigh bQul-bood of Scarborough with his. pack of beat and the ersion of hawking. • PORTUGUESE COIMBRA, AUG. 29.—[The following is extraaed from the journal of the operatidns of our army, ordered to be published by the Government of this City :—] ' • BATTLE OF VIMIERA. " Junot marched from Lisbon with all th'e tro ►ps he could colle&, and formed a junction with La borde, Loisob, Kellerman, and all his Generals of Brigade, with the intention of bringing on a general engagement with the English. During the night he pushed forward his artillery, and posted his troops so as to occupy a part of the mountains on the flank of the English army. ' " At nine o'clock in the morning of thegtst, he attacked the centre and right of the British position, endeavouring at the same time to turn their left.—: His first onset was very vigorous ; but the firmness of the British line was not to be shaken, and it re sisted in a manner which exceeds all praise. The victory was not for a moment doubtful. The Eng lish to advance, until they drove the French from all their positions. " The both . regiment, Chasseurs, and Royal, Scotch, did wonders. The, brigade of Portuguese infantry attached to the left wing concluded them selves with great spirit; but what principally decided the a&ion was the superiority of the English flying artillery. They had twelve-pounders mounted, which they moved with excessive rapidity, and'de stroyed every ,thing before them. Junot took his station on an eminence, where he observed the pro gress of the battle, and issued his orders. He had With him a reserve of noo men. " The French infantry began to give way,• and fall into disorder. At that instant the Commander of the British cavalry received orders to attack them. They were accompanied by two squadrons of Portu guese cavalry, who maintained the honour of, their country. At the moment that this united corps was about to charge the enemy,' a considerable body of French cavalry advanced from A pine wood. Not withstanding their great supeiiority, and our being advanCed upwards of 400 paces in front of. the Bri tish line, we acquitted ourselves Iperlealy well.—. Junot, perceiving that his army was completely routed,_gave orders to retreat, without making any attemit to risk his reserve, which aced as a guard. lii ,kfliole Staff were seen to set off as fast as they could. The result of this memorable anion was the capture of 2 t pieces of artillery,- and from 1000 to 1200 killed. The prisoners 'amount to 800, among whom are Generals Brenier add Arnaud. The latter fell from his horse, and, was'taken by a Portuguese, Serjeant and Cadet. • The number of wodnded can not be less than 2or 3000. The French carried ofd a number of them in waggons to Torres Vedias.---, The rest were left lying on the mountains. The Portuguese were generously employed', in colleaing them. In the hospital of the little village of Lou rinhau, there are more than twenty of them severely wounded. How different was the condu& of our oppressors, who exercised every. species of cruelty upon us ! The loss of the English do es n o t ex cee d, in killed and wounded, more than 500 men.- A Letter from Hamburgh states, that - BERNA. , DOTTE cannot dissemble his chagrin at the depar ture of the Spauiarck. When he lately returned to that city from Rendsburgh he forbad the discharges of artillery, which on former occasions announced his arrival ; and on .the day following, when the Syndic SCHULTZ waited on him to congratulate him in the name of the Senate on his return, and ex pressed his regret at the sudden disappearance of the Spaniards,' BERNADOTTE stopped him, and vehe mently exclaimed—" Oh, the beggarly banditti ! had I only had some ships, I would soon have brought them back again." Extraft of a Letter, dated Stockholm, the 12th of September, 1808 : "Lieutenant-Colonel GYLLENSCHOLD sets out to-day for London, to deliver the Flag of the Rus sian Man of War Sewolod, destroyed by ,Sir SAMUEL HOOD. Baron 'LAJERILIELKS is arrived from the Fleet, with the information that the Swedish and English Fleets, blockading the Russians in Port 8a1..: tic, have fired upon the batteries protecting the en trance ; that the Russian Admiral KANIKOFF, after having moored his Ships, in order to employ them as batteries,' has sued for a capitulation, on condi tion that the Russian Fleet should be unrigged, and not serve during the war. This proposal was re jecSted ; and in place of it the Swedes and English demanded, that siN of the Russian Ships should be 'delivered up, and the remainder be unrigged, and not sent to sea during the war. But as the Russian Admiral would not agree to these, conditions, the fire re-commenced from the joint Fleets. • It is stated as a fad, that Sir JAmits SAUMAREZ has written to Mr. THORNTON, the British Minister' at this place, that he is almost sure the Russian Fleet would sur render or be destroyed. " From Finland we have no certain news. There is, however, a report that the Swedish Army to the north of Abo has suffered much in an engagement, and been obliged to retreat half a mile (three Eng lish). We have lately had so much success, that we must expeat a check now and then. The Rus sians have lost more men in this campaign than• is generally supposed. The Swedish General VEGE SACK is at Christianstadr, and Gen. LANFINGSHAUSEN at Kasko. Our troops are, in high spirits. The Russians have sent a reinforcement of 20,000 fresh troops into Finland ; and private accounts from St. Petersburgh . state, that there is no likelihood of a peace; ALEXANDER is daily closeted with the French 'Ambassador; and it is said, that it is by the advice "of the latter that these 20,000 men have been order ed to Finland. It is really a pity that two neigh bours should destroy one another in this - way, for. no rational purpose on earth. Russia will never be so vereign of Finland; but it is the policy of' the French to keep her employed in that quarter." A new and singular conscription has lately taken place in the ,Austrian States, namely, of old women, for the use of the army, or rather, we should-. say, for the service,, of the. hospitals. Every district is called uporl? to provide a given number of veteran females, who, in the event of being wanted, may be immediately distributed in the several caserns or hospitals, as laundresses, nurses, &c. Capthin ROBERT EVANS, who arrived from the .Baltic on the 14th inst. with a Russian Nobleman, and DiSpatches of great consequence, is since ap pointed to the command of . the Satellite Sloop, in the Do w 1. S. AD PE RTISE M &AT 2 `: .NUT WANT RD:—TO prevent, needless : applica tions., it is necessary to inform the folloiers certain Party, 'whose charaaer is " better under stood than described," that the, Pat:ty.iS sufficiently supplied with writers, who aye skil.,;! in . the -inge nious art of confounding right and wrong, anaof: making " the worse appear the better reasen." - They - will, however, be glad to receive any hints likely' to itnpress,,upon credulous people:erroneous- notions of the conduit of Ministry, even on matters in which Ministry have no immediate concern, or in which they adopted every precaution that human foresight could suggest. -Any article in the form of Private' Letters from Abroad, tending to throw disgrace upon Sir ARTHUR \VELLESLEY, will be well received, and worked up into such a shape as shall excite amazement in the original inventors, at the power of la6tious exaggeration. _ _ _ A few reasons to Prove that .It7NoT - aiqually de feated' the British armies, on the 17th, and 2tst of . ; August, "will be gratefully accepted ; and also other reasons to shew, that in case the French General had held out, there was no chance of adverse winds, ,but that our Vessels would have remained . ..in per feat security in the Tagus i -gand that our Troops were in no danger of starvation.. If any ano nymous friend will also provide a few more Fo • reign Letters, signifying that the Portuguese were so desirous of retaining the French in their Coun try, that they ,Would not willingly have parted with all the property seized by The latter, but were anxious to detain at Lisbon such enlightened and liberal Protealors. Assertions of the. must positive kiwi,. and _stories of the .most improbable nature, will not be rejected ; but all Correspondents are earnestly desired' to conne6l every event abroad with hints of mismanagement at home: No reward can be otred,but it is conceived that the hop e o f d o i ng mischief, and possibility of degrad ing Ministry, and thereby of quieting, for a time, the Creditors of Opposition, will afford sufficient recompense to true faaious spirits, and from such only will .communications of the nature here speci fied be accepted and carried into effeal. The Gazette of Saturday contains an Order of the KING in Council for the restoration of the Portil-; gue..e property which has been under detention since the French took possession of that country. An Embassy is preparing at Paris,.at the head of which Dtutoc is placed, to compliment the Emperor of AUSTRIA on his marriage. Presents of consider able value have been ordered by BUONAPARTE for the occasion. • On Saturday Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN DOYLE, Bart: and K. G. arrived in Dublin; from his com mand in Guernsey, after 12 years absence from his native Country, on a short visit to his relations and numerous friends. BARRYMORE is to resume hiS station at Old Drury, but in the mean time he . gives his aid to the.Covent garden Company in the. charader of Glenalvon, of which he is always a very able representative. Mr. ROBERT HEATH COTE, and his wife, the, late Miss SEA\RLE, are, partaking of the hospitahlies•of Lord GUILDFORD, at his country seat in Oxford shire. Lord and Lady CRAVEST are rusticating in the neighbourhood of Wyniotith. His Lorship.. has a yacht there, and takes frequent trips to sea. • He also employs much of his time in .fishing, a sport he ,is very fond of. The Proprietors of the late Theatre-Royal in Co vent-Garden have sent a i notice to the Committee for conducting the Subscription for the Relief of the Families of the unfortunate Persons who perished in the Fire last Tuesday, of their intention to give a :Benefit Play, in furtherance of this benevolent and, charitable objed. A serious Drama is soon t,o be brought. forward . at Drury-Lane Theatre, written by Mrs. COCKLE, to whOni 'the public are indebted for several works ad mirably calculated for the amusement and improve ment of the rising , generation. This drama was in forward preparation for performance last season. SoMe of the old materials 'of the houses which have been recently pulled down in the neighbour hood of Palace Yard, Were last week disposed of by public, sale. The sign which belonged to a public , .. house was knocked down for two and six-pence,. which induced a wag to observe, that it seemed to be held as cheap as ilk were one of BUONAPARTE'S Continental Crowns. Died on Monday last, EDWAIID . DERING; Esq. eldest son of Sir EDWARD DERING; Bart. , DARING OUTRAGE.--On Thursday afternoon, about five o'clock, a fellow went into the house of Mrs. FRAZER, in Peter -street, and -going ,- into the parlour, where she was sitting at work, asked her if her name was FRAZER ; being answered yes, he pulled out a knife, and swore he 1....0u1d kill her if she spoke a word, and then robbed her of 141. in bank notes and cash, and seven yards of 'cloth she had be -fore het' on the table, and which,' it is remarkable, had been brought to her the same, morning by a stranger, to make him two shirts, who has not since appeared. to claim it. SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 26. This day's market afforded a large supply of prime beasts, and the shew of Cattle in other respe&s was considerable; Beef, Mutton, Lamb, Veal, and Pork sold at last prices, and the trade in•general was tole rably brisk. I he sales in the Haymarket were pretty lively ; Hay, Straw, and Clover, fetched !al prices. The undertnentiOned prices and numbers are an ac curate statement : Beef 4s. od. to Ss. 6d.—Mutton 4s. ed. to ss, §d.—Veal 6s. od. to 7s. od.-lAmb 4s. od. to 6s. od.—Pork ss. od. to 6s. 6d. Hay sl. os. od. to 61. ros. od.—Clover 61,. od. to 71. los. od.--Straw 11. us. mi. to 11. 18s. od. CORN EXCHANGES SEVT. 26.-ralere are large .arrivals of Wheat this day, partly new, of light quality, which is 6s. to Bs. per quarter lower, but fine old is nearly at Friday's redutlion ; Barley in plenty;, nearly at last prices ; White Pease are dearer; Beaus at little variation ; the quantities of Oats are considerable, and sales thereof nearly at our last currency ; Rape Seed rather dearer, and Flour ss. per sack lower. 'wheat 65s a flos a 9os ad Fine ditto . is a 9ss a. Rye - sos a Sys ea Batley - . 4 0s a 455 od Malt • 72$ a 8 3 $ c, .White Pease taos a 14 s cd Grey ditto - 6os a 6ss od beans . 64s a ps od Tick Beans a ,62s a 68s od Oats -33 s a 36s a 38s Oct Poland ditto sgs a 4os od Potatce —s a 42s od Rape Seed 401 a 441 2 ed Fine Flour - 7cs a Bos cd Seconds - dos a 75s gct ..14* r y, PQ, P It E. • • , Guri 4LL, SEFT. 24;—A. complaint, in• it-e . f but of ; importance, as connected with the, health of the city of London, came on to be he trd. : A - respedable inhabitant of 14-lane complain:A of thiee country cutting butchers, fur a no s Inc by having, with. a number of others, blocked u d the street . ..with their -carts, frem six o'clock to. nitu , ,, -e'ver'y" market_ morning, when comiig to Newgate Market to purchase their meat, and drawing up those carts so close to the doors and windoNs of the inlia- r • bitauts, as not only to, prevent the 'access of their customers, but even to hinder them from opening' their shops. He said, .that the whole neighbOur hood, on whose part he appealed, Irld been ter years sufferers by this species of nuisance ; and that when ever they ventured to remonstrate, as they fre quently have done, with the defaulters in this.way; they only received insolentdanguage and threats. He complained, however, ofno insolence in the present , cas, but said, that he complied with the injuuftioa of Alderman Birch, on a termer-complaint, in apply ing to the street-keeper, and having, those three carts taken to the greeu-yard, and the parties w ere now brought forward to answer. - One of therm, a master butcher, of Woolwich,.. and a most re'.peaable man, stated, that he should be extremely sorry to give any Offence, - or create any. inconvenience to the City of London; that he would keep 110 servant in his employment who would offer insult or incivility to any body, but that he was obliged, in the way "of his business and livelihood, to resort to'the‘public market of Newgate-street, to purchase meat, like a nurnber of other trading butchers; that he knew not how to get there but by some of the avenues that led to it, and that he. fonnd that in each of them the inhabitants com.' plained of annoyance, which he knew not how to remove. If the carts found in this situation were to . be instantly sent to .the green-yard, the customers of the owners would be disapuinted,of supply, and the owners themselves be ruined in their busineSS ; he would be glad if it were po s sible to avoid an y such •cause of compli , tint, but he feared it was im possible in the narrow passages which approached, the market. • • The MAG;STRATE said, the nuisance could not be_ borne, and advised the complainant, who did not with .to press any penalty in the present case, to ap ply to the inspecting Jury,-and let them, upon their own view of the nuisance, indict all 'defaulters. And' as to the trading butchers, as they were a wealthy set of men, they ought to purchase some piece of ground in the neighbourhood, where then. carts - might main witb.ot annoying the public. Now, on the .score of nuisance, ,the complainant might have added, for his neighbours, and for . thou- sands 13esides, that' Ivy-lane and - Warwick-lane;, as. Weil as .Newgate-market, present , a much more alarMing, because an absolutely pestilent, nnisance, to the city and. to the public,. every day ;a the year,,. from which it is Only wonderfid that an annual .pl4ghe has not arisen. ' One half of - Warwick-lane, on' both sides, is a chain of slaughter4iouses ,Newgate-market,; frOm which streams of blood con tinually flow, which, in hot weather, exhale the most dangerous effluvia. The minor nuisance of a higgler's cart may be remedied by removal to the green-yard, but it is only surprising that the greate'r and more intolerabls evil has, not loug since removed all the inhabitants to the church-yard ; unless, in deed, it be the opinion of.the College of Physicians, 'who deliberate at one end of the lane, that'the in habitants of the vicinage have been so long used to breathe in stench and - pestilence, that a purer air would be dangerous to their .lives. - -Mary Veal, who had been detained for offering in pledge . to Mr. Parker, pawnbroker, a silver spoon, the property of Mr. Car6.vrigin, surgeon, Palsgrave place, which she admitted she-had received from W. Veal, Mr. C.'s servant, was brought up for re-ex amination. At the first examination, it appeared that the principal in the theft had absconded, and the ut most vigilance of the officers had not yet been able to trace him. 'The absence of the principal, there fore, in the event of the prisoner's being regarded only as the receiver ; or her being' the wife' of W. Veal, as she stated herself to he, in which case she must be presumed to have, aded tinder the influence of her husband, not warranting the committal of the prisoner for trial, she was discharged, . after having strenuously denied all knowledge of some, other prO perty,which had,been carried off. BOW-STREET.—A Mr. S , formerly in the army, was on Sathrday last examined before Mr. GRAHAM, on a charge of bigamy, in marrying a second wife, his former one being living at the time. The first marriage, it appeared took place upwards of 20 years ago, at Furneux Pelham, in the county of Hefts; but, alter some few years, a separation took place, Since which time the parties never co habited together. • In . the . year 1799, Mr. S. con.: tra6ted a second marriage with Miss A. T. of Kew. The fad of both' ri:arriages being established, and Mr. S.'s person being ideptified, he was fully com mitted to take his trial at , the next Sessions tbr the county of Surrey, the last marriage having been solemnized in that county ; and Mr. S. being also apprehended there. The Gazette of Sattaday coniains Acldresses-tb his IMAJgsTY, applauding his condu6t towards Spain, fiOtn the Mayor, Sheriffs, and. Citizens of the Coun ty of the City of Waterford ; the NOblernen, Gen-, t)emen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Carnaryon and the Mayor, Freemen,. and Inhdbi= tants of the Borough sof Plymouth. PrlAnmun, the new Grand Signor, is half-brother ' to the late Sovereign MUSTAPAA—he was born on the 20th of July, 1785. Yesterchiy the remains of. Syers, fireman to the Phoinix Fire-Office, who lost his life at the dreadful fire in Covent-Garden, were carried in funeral pro cession to Queenbithe; for interment, followed by all the servants of the above Office. The crowd of spedtators was immense. The Society for the improvement of the Che viot breed of sheep, at their late meeting at Samie stop, reported, that this breed had both in fleece and, carcase, since it became an obje& of such atten tion; nearly doubled in value. The quantity of coarse wool, in , the fleece had considerably diminished, and • that of the fine proportionably increased. As to the . carcase, the improvement was equally conspicuous. The Society, on the whole, earnestly recommend this valuable breed in those districts where the ob. jed is to cultivate short Wool, A